Mujinga Kambundji
Born : 17 June 1992 (Bern, Switzerland)
Height : 1.76 m (5ft 9 in)
Weight 59 Kg(130 lb)
Country : Switzerland
Sports : Athletics
Event(s) : 100 meters, 200 meters
Coached by : Valerij Bauer
Nationality : Swiss
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In 2009, Kambundji won the silver medal in the 100 metres and gold medal in the 4×100 metres relay at the European Youth Olympic Festival, and the gold medals in the 100 and 200 metres at the Swiss championships. For this, she was elected Swiss Athlete of the Year by the Swiss Athletics Association. In 2010, she won the 200 meters in the Second League of the European Team Championships, and broke the Swiss U20 record in 200 metres in the U20 World Championships.
Mujinga Kambundji trained with the ST Bern athletics club and was trained by Jacques Cordey. In the autumn of 2013 she moved to Mannheim to train under coach Valerij Bauer alongside former European champion Verena Sailer.
At the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zürich Kambundji broke her own national record in the heats and semi-finals of the 100 metres competition before finishing fourth in the final. She subsequently finished fifth and broke Regula Aebi's 26-year-old national record in the 200 metres final.
Kambundji qualified for the Swiss team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, reaching the semi-finals of both the 100m and the 200m. Earlier in the same year, she had won bronze in the 100m competition at the European Championships in Amsterdam.
At the 2017 World Championships in London, Kambundji finished 10th in the 100m competition. In the 4 × 100 m relay competition, Kambundji and her teammates Ajla Del Ponte, Sarah Atcho and Salomé Kora improved the national record in the semi-finals and finished fifth in the final. At the end of the year, Kambundji announced that she will work with Dutch coach Henk Kraaijenhof in the future. Their working relationship was terminated after only two months, however.
At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Kambundji finished 3rd in the 60m final to win bronze. At the European Championships in Berlin, she finished 4th in the 100m as well as in the 200m and in the 4 × 100 m relay (with Ajla Del Ponte, Sarah Atcho and Salomé Kora).
At the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Kambundji finished 3rd in the 200 m competition.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics she qualified for the finals in both 100 m and 200 m sprints, finished sixth in the former and seventh in the latter event.
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Honors:
1 x World Championships Bronze medalist
1 x World Indoor Championships Bronze medalist
1 x European Championships Bronze medalist
2 x In Top 8 at World Championships
1 x European Team Championships winner
5 x In Top 8 at European Championships
1 x European Team Championships Silver medalist
1 x European Indoor Championships Bronze medalist
4 x Diamond League meeting winner
2 x In Top 8 at European Indoor Championships
2 x European Team Championships 1st League winner
17 x National champion
7 x National Indoor champion
About me
Mujinga is a Swiss athlete who was born on the 17th of June 1992 in Bern. Her mother Ruth comes from the bernese Oberland, growing up on the family farm where her grandmother still lives to this day. Mujinga’s father Safuka is of congolese descent.
She had her breakthrough at the home european championships in Zürich 2014, where she got recognition for her exceptional results and her warm smile. Her biggest achievements are the bronze medals at the european championships in 2016 and the world indoor championships in 2018.
Mujinga is the fastest women in Switzerland’s history and the first to break the 11” barriere in the 100m.
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